Mary E. Miller, Sterling Professor of the History of Art and master of Saybrook College, has been named dean of Yale College by President Richard C. Levin. “Mary has devoted her entire career to Yale and has been an exemplary academic citizen,” Levin said...
Yale University’s Arthur Horwich, M.D., has been elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Sciences announced.Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical...
Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, longtime scholar of the American South, and author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (Knopf, 2008), will talk about her book at 4:30 p.m. on October 29, at Luce Hall...
Dr. Arthur Horwich, Sterling Professor of Genetics and Pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, has been given two prestigious honors.He received the 2008 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize awarded by Columbia...
Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine why some people are at an increased risk of developing lung cancer. Yale Cancer Center researchers have identified a genetic biomarker that may help to determine...
Eight new courses in history, economics, literature and biomedical engineering taught by leading faculty have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free online education initiative. The courses, which were recorded in their entirety as they...
The brains of obese people seem to respond to a tasty treat with less vigor than the brains of their leaner peers, suggesting obese people may overeat to compensate for a reduced reward response, according to a new brain imaging and genetics study...
Yale researchers have described how dueling brain systems may explain why you forget to drop off the dry cleaning and may point to ways that substance abusers and people with obsessive compulsive disorder can overcome bad habits. In Proceedings of the...
Our judgment of a person’s character can be influenced by something as simple as the warmth of the drink we hold in our hand.
In the October 24, 2008 issue of the journal Science, Yale University psychologists show that people judged others to be more...
Top scientists, representatives of the Veterans Administration and paralyzed veterans will join Yale University and West Haven officials Oct. 30 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Yale Center for Neuroscience and Regeneration Research.Top scientists...